Concordance vs Convergence - What's the difference?
concordance | convergence |
agreement; accordance; consonance
* (rfdate)
(grammar, obsolete) concord; agreement.
An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
* c. 1857 , (Thomas Macaulay), "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica ,
(computational linguistics) a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
The act of moving toward union or uniformity.
A meeting place.
The intersection of three electron beams for red, green and blue onto a single pixel in a CRT.
(mathematics) The process of approaching some limiting value.
(physiology) The coordinated focusing of the eyes, especially at short range.
(biology) The evolution of similar structures or traits in unrelated species in similar environments; convergent evolution.
The merging of distinct technologies, industries, or devices into a unified whole.
As nouns the difference between concordance and convergence
is that concordance is agreement; accordance; consonance while convergence is the act of moving toward union or uniformity.concordance
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(wikipedia concordance)Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- Contrasts, and yet concordances .
- His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
convergence
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Noun
(wikipedia convergence)- The convergence or divergence of the rays falling on the pupil. — Berkeley.
- We built a homestead at the convergence of two rivers